[boot scriptor] Re: few questions on bscript

Hello Doctor xp, thanks a lot for your help.

> 1) DiskEmu is a good enough solution, I've been using it (in the DiskEm1x 
> project) for more 
> than a year before using MemDisk in the 911 CD project.
> But if you want to use ISOLinux "this will initilize the BIOS built-in floppy 
> emulation" try 
> using the full path name  "isolinux /bscript/winme.img".

strange... I got invalid file..... anyway, I will live with diskemu ^_^

> 2) You don't need the demo ISO file, here is the way:
>    1- Put your Linux loader in the /bscript/modules/isolinux directory (I've 
> tried the zimage 
> and vmlinuz loaders and they both work).
>    2- Put your initrd.gz/initrd.img.bz in the bscript directory.
>    3- Use the command : isolinux vmlinuz initrd=/bscript/initrd.gz 
> ramdisk_size=128000 (maybe > you need to add also " root=/dev/cd0" in the end 
> of the line, I'm not sure).
>       for the zimage loader use : isolinux zimage 
> initrd=/bscript/initrd.img.bz mem=8m
>    4- If you don't have the Linux files, you can download them from  
> http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html, it contains a 
> downloadable .bin file, > 
> rename it to .img and extract the vmlinuz - initrd.gz files using WinImage, 
> for the zimage - > 
> initrd.img.bz check http://www.toms.net/rb/.

thanks a lot, it works, but I find that use memdisk is much easier ^_^
I try incorporate CrashRecovery CD into bootscriptor.
http://crashrecovery.org/

I extract the 2.4.19 (RedHat 8 runtime) to the root and use the line
onkey 6 isolinux vmlinuz initrd=/boot/diskimage.img ramdisk_size=204800
root=/dev/ram0
but I got:
Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0
kernel panic VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

also, I try several floppy base linux as well (get from here
http://www.trash.net/~jgs/floppy_linux.html)
and I try FD Linux (http://www.fdlinux.com/download.html) and
Pocket Linux (http://www.pocket-lnx.org/download.html)
using memdisk to load them will ask me insert floppy disk ~_~

> 3) Bootable MacOS CDs needs a special arrangement, and simply the PowerPC 
> processors doesn't 
> handle the BootScriptor code (it is x86 instructions), for the BeOS/Solaris 
> idea, if you have 
> the time, you can search google.com about bootable CDs on these platforms, 
> this will provide 
> you with enough info on how to adapt their methods for BootScriptor.

I just try SUN Solaris boot disk and BeOS boot disk (by Isolinux and
memdisk)and both fail ~_~ may be I need to start from their bootable 
CD first.
(I got those boot disk at http://www.bootdisk.com/ and 
http://www.polarhome.com/service/bootdisk/?lang=en)

Regds
LAM Chi-fung

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